Difference between Dull and Dumb

DULL vs DUMB: NOUN

A noose of string or wire used to snare fish; usually, a noose of bright copper wire attached by a short string to a stout pole.

DULL vs DUMB: ADJECTIVE

Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.
Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster.
Boring; not exciting or interesting.
Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; ; hence, cloudy; overcast.
Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert.
Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim
Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.
Insensible; unfeeling.
Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
Dispirited; depressed.
Lacking responsiveness or alertness; insensitive.
Intellectually weak or obtuse; stupid.
Not clear or resonant.
Cloudy or overcast.
Not bright, vivid, or shiny.
Not intensely or keenly felt.
Not having a sharp edge or point; blunt.
Not brisk or rapid; sluggish.
Arousing little interest; lacking liveliness; boring.
Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
Lacking in liveliness or animation
Not keenly felt
Not having a sharp edge or point
Darkened with overcast
(of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted
Emitting or reflecting very little light
(of business) not active or brisk
Blunted in responsiveness or sensibility
Not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft
Being or made softer or less loud or clear

Temporarily incapable of speaking
Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.
Extremely stupid.
Unable to speak; lacking power of speech.
To confound; to astonish; to render silent by astonishment; or, it may be, to deprive of the power of speech.
Signs and gestures without words; as, to tell a story in dumb show.
See under crambo.
A west Indian plant of the Arum family (Dieffenbachia seguina), which, when chewed, causes the tongue to swell, and destroys temporarily the power of speech.
A cake made in silence by girls on St. Mark's eve, with certain mystic ceremonies, to discover their future husbands.
Any animal except man; -- usually restricted to a domestic quadruped; -- so called in contradistinction to man, who is a “speaking animal.”
A form of intermittent fever which has no well-defined “chill.”
See Deaf-mute.
Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color.
Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words.
Unintentional; haphazard.
Conspicuously unintelligent; stupid.
Not self-propelling.
Not expressed or articulated in sounds or words.
Unwilling to speak; taciturn.
Temporarily speechless, as with shock or fear.
Incapable of using speech; mute. Used of humans.
Lacking the power of speech. Used of animals and inanimate objects.
Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
Unable to speak temporarily
Lacking the power of human speech
Unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

DULL vs DUMB: VERB

To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
To soften, moderate or blunt.
To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
Make numb or insensitive
Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
Become less interesting or attractive
Make dull or blunt
Make dull in appearance
Become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness
Make less lively or vigorous

To reduce the intellectual demands of.
To represent as stupid.
To make stupid.
To silence.

DULL vs DUMB: INTRANSITIVE VERB

To become dull or stupid.

DULL vs DUMB: TRANSITIVE VERB

To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.

To put to silence.
To make silent or dumb.

DULL vs DUMB: OTHER WORD TYPES

Not clear and resonant
Lacking intellectual acuity
Slow to learn or understand
Highly diluted
(of color) very low in saturation
Lose shine or brightness
Not keenly felt; not intense: as, a dull pain.
Not sharp or acute; obtuse; blunt: as, a dull sword; a dull needle.
Not bright or clear; not vivid; dim; obscure: as, a dull fire or light; a dull red color; the mirror gives a dull reflection.
Gross; inanimate; insensible.
Not pleasing or enlivening; not exhilarating; causing dullness or ennui; depressing; cheerless: as, dull weather; a dull prospect.
Sad; melancholy; depressed; dismal.
Wanting sensibility or keenness; not quick in perception: as, dull of hearing; dull of seeing.
Heavy; sluggish; drowsy; inanimate; slow in thought, expression, or action: as, a surfeit leaves one dull; a dull thinker; a dull sermon; a dull stream; trade is dull.
Stupid; foolish; doltish; blockish; slow of understanding: as, a lad of dull intellect.
To become deadened in color; lose brightness.
To become calm; moderate: as, the wind dulled, or dulled down, about twelve o'clock.
To become dull or blunt; become stupid.
To make less keenly felt; moderate the intensity of: as, to dull pain.
To make less sharp or acute; render blunt or obtuse: as, to dull a knife or a needle.
To render dim; sully; tarnish or cloud: as, the breath dulls a mirror.
To make dull, stupid, heavy, insensible, etc.; lessen the vigor, activity, or sensitiveness of; render inanimate; damp: as, to dull the wits; to dull the senses.
To fish with a dull: as, to dull for trout.
(transitive; intransitive verb) To make or become dull.

Lacking intellectual acuity
Slow to learn or understand
Synonyms and Mute, etc. See silent.
Deficient in clearness or brightness, as a color.
Dull; stupid; doltish.
Hence Lacking some usual power, manifestation, characteristic, or accompaniment; destitute of reality in some respect; irregular; simulative: as, dumb ague; dumb craft. See phrases below.
Mute; not accompanied with or emitting speech or sound: as, a dumb show; dumb signs.
Destitute of the power of speech; unable to utter articulate sounds: as, a deaf and dumb person; the dumb brutes.
Mute; silent; refraining from speech.
To make dumb; silence; overpower the sound of.
To become dumb; be silent.

DULL vs DUMB: RELATED WORDS

Damp, Muted, Dim, Lusterless, Lackluster, Wearisome, Tiresome, Leaden, Tedious, Humdrum, Uninteresting, Drab, Monotonous, Dreary, Boring

Foolish, Idiotic, Dumbass, Silly, Unarticulate, Dense, Silent, Speechless, Dim, Slow, Dull, Mute, Inarticulate, Obtuse, Stupid

DULL vs DUMB: DESCRIBE WORDS

Damp, Muted, Dim, Lusterless, Lackluster, Wearisome, Tiresome, Leaden, Tedious, Humdrum, Uninteresting, Drab, Monotonous, Dreary, Boring

Foolish, Idiotic, Dumbass, Silly, Unarticulate, Dense, Silent, Speechless, Dim, Slow, Dull, Mute, Inarticulate, Obtuse, Stupid

DULL vs DUMB: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

It may be dull or nearly glassy looking.
Visceral pain is typically vague, dull, and nauseating.
The scrolls are merely records of dull transactions.
Always remove unwanted hairs in dull lighting only.
Australian caviar that replenishes tired and dull complexions.
My dear father, only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
For example, we can freely rearrange order of adjectives examples sentences a dull, dark, and depressing day: a depressing, dark, dull day.
These are not questions of mere dull common sense; it is only dull absence of common sense which will think them so.
Zinc puts a very fine layer on, what goes in dull comes out dull.
However it is dull, I mean real dull.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
So yes, this is being dumb for the sake of being dumb, but it had a lot of funny moments.
Dumb Luck: Occasionally, a halfling will be struck by a bout of absolutely dumb luck.
The characters are dumb guys, dumb girls, and a hell of a lot of bitchiness.
For all of the hundreds of dumb things that have ruined my photos, sometimes equally dumb luck comes and gives you a great shot.
Europeans whose dumb cry for peace I hear, for my ears are attended to hearing the dumb millions?
Oh, I once knew a poor person who was dumb, so all poor people must be dumb.
Well this is the dumb dumb that just wants to be noticed.
This dumb blonde aka Bengali babe is the living definition of dumb!
Dumb name, dumb dog, but teeth down to here.

DULL vs DUMB: QUESTIONS

What to do if the beams look dull after varnishing?
What does the Bible say about dull clouds in dreams?
How can I Keep my hardwood floors from getting dull?
Does the Holy Spirit dull your memories when confession ends?
What does dull percussion mean in a pulmonary examination?
What does dull percussion sound like in a pleurisy?
When is dull a more appropriate choice than stupid?
What are some examples of unoriginal and dull sentences?
Are your course descriptions dull or grammatically sloppy?
What causes dull cramping discontinuous chest pain?

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Why did the dumb terminal become obsolete over time?
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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DULL AND DUMB

DULL vs DUMB: NOUN

DULL vs DUMB: ADJECTIVE

DULL vs DUMB: VERB

DULL vs DUMB: INTRANSITIVE VERB

DULL vs DUMB: TRANSITIVE VERB

DULL vs DUMB: OTHER WORD TYPES

DULL vs DUMB: RELATED WORDS

DULL vs DUMB: DESCRIBE WORDS

DULL vs DUMB: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

DULL vs DUMB: QUESTIONS